[Kosh]

Or it would crash the ATC systems. Or make them give poor readings which resulted in the pilots getting the wrong landing information.

I really can't see why anyone would have so much trouble accepting that an aeroplane or ATC system having bad data isn't a serious potential risk.

I just never figured they would have factored in the year to their nav systems, that's all.

[headdie]

Or it would crash the ATC systems. Or make them give poor readings which resulted in the pilots getting the wrong landing information.

I really can't see why anyone would have so much trouble accepting that an aeroplane or ATC system having bad data isn't a serious potential risk.

I just never figured they would have factored in the year to their nav systems, that's all.

date/time is usualy stored as a number which is converted to date time by an algerithem, a good example is to type a date into excel, then select the cell propertys and change it to show number so an innacurecy in that number will throw it out for example

23/03/1999 16:00 in excel is stored as 36242.6666666667

[S-99]

Now tell me again who is not thinking of the big picture?

Nothing anymore since now you're agreeing with me. The whole thing with my old computer was for testing a hypothesis that there's a possibility that perhaps y2k isn't so catastrophic.

Having sexy time with mainframes running accounting systems designed in the 60s to embedded systems designed for very, very constrained hardware specs, all of which were deemed so critical for operation that people were actually afraid of upgrading them. Systems where noone knew how they were going to react on January 1st, 2000. Systems where you couldn't just run a quick test to see what would happen then.

In other words, me love you long time, when you're saying "No wonder nothing happened, there was a giant effort to make absolutely sure of that".

This is where you agree with me that about what i said about y2k tech phobia. People going ape **** over a problem that had some unknowns (people reading too far into the problem such as the world ending on 00). Is it that bad to test on similar systems that wouldn't pose a risk if they were separate for testing to see what could happen on the big 00? My only problem was that i did one crappy test for ****s and giggles, when also seeing what the win3.1.1 and the win95 i also had would have provided more insight (but damnit, i was 14, and i didn't think of this then).